Noob Question :-/ ....
.... I am brand new to Debian, have used RH's for about 10 years, SGI &
SuSE before that, Mandrake before that, ConvexOS before that. I
installed Squeeze-kfreeBSD on a Socket 939 Opteron server that I
recently replaced the root drive (which had croaked) on. I like the
small memory footprint that the *BSD's usually provide, since this
machine only has 2 GB of RAM & can't take any more. I got everything
(base) installed & ssh'ed in as root to look around. That box has 2
other drives on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are
both use ext3 filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I was
running on that box before the root drive died. I tried to mount those
drives as ext3 drives & I get the following:
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 10:49 AM] 592 # ll /dev/ad*
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 78 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 79 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0s1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 82 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 83 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 85 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s2
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 86 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4s3
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 88 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad6
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 89 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad6s1
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3
/dev/ad0s1 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3
/dev/ad6s1 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No such device
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 595 #
Both drives were AOK as of Friday when I poweroff'ed the CentOS rescue
disk to replace the root drive, so I *think* they are OK. They were
recognized during the install as ext3 drives. The new root drive is ad4,
a 160 GB SATA drive. What's going on here ? Isn't the ext3 fs supported
under Debian-kfreeBSD ? TIA for any clues & happy Veteran's Day.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
ever devised by man."
-- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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